Simon Caldwell, Author at Crux

African calls West’s imposition of abortion ‘cultural supremacy’
- Catholic News Service, Global Church
- July 12, 2017
The British government co-hosted an international Family Planning Summit in London with the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and the U.N. Population Fund. The U.K. Department for International Development said the July 11 summit aimed to boost global commitment to “ensuring women and girls have access to family planning services.” Many Africans accuse the conference of behaving like “old colonial masters” by trying to impose abortion on the continent.
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Syriac Christian artist calls paintings of war ‘a cry for help’
- Catholic News Service, Global Church
- July 6, 2017
Farid Georges, a Syriac Christian from Homs, Syria, is bringing the story of violence and displacement in his country to Catholic cathedrals of northwest England and Wales in an exhibition called “Portraits of Faith: Syria’s Christians Search for Peace.”
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Church offers counseling to help students cope with trauma of London fire
- Catholic News Service, Global Church
- June 19, 2017
John Paul Morrison, the director of education for the Archdiocese of Westminster, said he was “very proud” of the response to the tragedy of the Catholic Church “at every level.” Speaking about the response, he said, “It was good to see all elements of the church’s mission come together to address what is an incredibly said but also an incredibly complex situation.”
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Vatican launches Belgium euthanasia investigation

The Vatican is formally investigating a group of psychiatric care centers in Belgium run by a Catholic religious order which has enforced that doctors in the facilities perform euthanasia. Vatican Secretary of State, Cardinal Pietro Parolin, will be overseeing the situation himself.

Your cellphone thwarts efforts to end war, Congolese priest says

According to this Congolese priest your cellphone foments war and conflict in the Congo. The global demand for “conflict minerals” used to build cellphones and similar devices benefits from bloodshed in countries where looters exploit and usurp the territory.

‘Lots of tears’ at chapel services, says priest serving Parliament

Several prayer services took place on Thursday in the Houses of Parliament in London, a day after a terrorist killed three people in an attack near the complex. The Catholic chaplain said “Westminster Parliament is like a village and, when something like this happens, everyone comes together.”